The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 16

Journal-Every Eveninjr, Wilmington. Delaware, Wednesday, December 15, 1943 Socialites Throughout State Now Occupied by Holiday Parties Naomi Pleasanton To Become Bride OfS. L. Broi Ceremony to Be Performed This Afternoon In Dover Church Bride Yesterday Florence Crewe. Joseph Barkley To Wed Tomorrow Early Evening Ceremony To Be Performed In McCabe Church Club Juniors Army Dietitian, Nurse Are Guests Of Clubwomen To Wed Seaman To Have Dinner, Bridge Party New Century Seniors To Civilian Defense Aide Is Speaker Before Business Group Sixteen Newlyweds Be Guests at Holiday Fete 4- Mrs.

J. Morton Baxter, president The Christmas party of the Wilmington Business and Professional Women's Club was held last night of the Wilmington New Century Club, and Mrs. William N. Cann, Miss Florence Virginia Crewe, niece of Miss Mary V. Crewe, and Ensign Joseph A.

Barkley, son of Mrs. Eiva Barkley, Marsh and Silverside Roads, will be married at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening in McCabe Memorial Methodist Church by the Rev. Dr. Edward J. Bond, assisted by th Rev.

J. Edward Hemphill, pastor of Pleasant Hill Church. Mr. Milton P. Crewe will give his granddaughter in marriage.

Miss Ruth Anne Crewe, sister of the bride, will be maid of honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss Amy Springbett, Miss Beatrice Gray, Miss Doris BarKey, sister of the "bridegroom, and Mis Joyce Wollaston. Mary Ann Lum will be Junior bridesmaid. Ensign J. Christy Conner, will be best man.

The ushers will be Photo by OkonIski Studio. Faulkner Seaman and Mrs. Miss Charlotte Anne Hopkins AND MRS. CHARLES C. HERMAN.

902 West Sixth Street, an- iVx nounce the marriage of their First Class Nelson B. Faulkner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Faulkner of this city.

The ceremony was performed in the rectory of St. Paul's Church by the Rev. Michael J. Jordan. Miss Edith M.

Herman, sister of the bride, and Mrs. Francis Hedley were the attendants. Both the bride and bridegroom are graduates of the Wilmington High Schqpl. DOVER, Dec. 15 (Special).

In the Dover Presbyterian Church this afternoon, Miss Naomi Elizabeth Pleasanton, daughter of Mrs. Barnard C. Muir, will become the bride of Lieut. Smithy L. Browning, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Perry Browning of Wichita Falls. Tex. The Rev. Dt.

Elliot Field will officiate. The bride will be given in marriage by her step-father, Sergeant Muir. Her maid of honor and only attendant will be Mis Mary L. Roe of this' city. Mr.

James J. Behen. will be besf man. Mr. Guy Bowdle and Mr.

James J. Behen, will be ushers. The bride will wear a gown of white marquisette, made on princess lines, with long sleeves and a neck. The train is edged with Chan-tiUy lace, with bands of the lace reaching from the shoulders to the end of the train. Her fingertip-length veil of net will be attached to a Marie Antoinette cap of lace, matching that on the gown.

She will carry a colonial bouquet of wrhite orchids and baby's breath. The maid of honor will wear ice blue, fashioned with a tight bodice of metallic cloth, long full skirt of net with bands of the cloth. She will wear pink mitts and a headdress of pink and blue forget-me-nots. Her bouquet will be a nosegay of the same flowers. Mrs.

Muir. mother of the bride, will war a street length dress of black crepe with sequin bodice and black accessories, with white gardenia corsage. A reception will be held at the Pleasant Inn. Lieutenant and Mrs. Browning will leave after the reception on a wedding trip to Texas and will be guests of the bridegroom's parents.

They will make their home in New Mexico, where Lieutenant Browning will be stationed. Lieutenant Browning returned recently from service in North Africa where he was wounded. He formerly was stationed at the Dover Air Base. Thatcher-H arden FX I lilt III if tftU VFI C7 C7 By Reserves at Girl Reserves of the Y. W.

C. A. will be hostefses at the annual "Hanging of the Greens" at the W. C. A.

at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The evening's program will open with a worship service. Music will i lor Miss" theatre group will present be furnished by a Girl Reserve an original skit entitled "Granny's chorus with Natalie Buckley and Version of Christmas." Those tak-Ernestine Hays as soloists. Miss ing part will be: Dolores Woolsey, Eleanor Smyth will serve as the i Joan Crawford, Louise Rhoades, Mr. Robert Wollaston, Pfc.

Horace P. Warrington. Mr. Robert! Mat-hett and Mr. Frank Hakenjos.

Mrs. Edward Hemphill will sing preceding the ceremony and the wedding music will be played bv Mrs. Margaret Riggs Hanby. A reception in the church will follow the ceremonv. Miss Crewe entertained members i of her bridal party at a dinner pre- ceding the rehearsal last night Miss Gray and Miss Springbett enter-i tained with a shower Monday eve nmg in honor of the bride-to-be.

Ensign Barkley received his commission yesterday mornins at Pensa- cola, Fla. WomaitS Sociot Elects Officers Mrs. H. B. Hygate was reelected president of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of Harrison Street Methodist Church at the meeting held Monday evening in the church.

Other new officers are: Vice-president, Mrs. Jacob Orr; recording secretary, Mrs. William J. Bradbury: treasurer. Miss Edith Thatcher; corresponding jecretary, Mrs.

L. J. Keyser; secretary of Christian social relations and local church activities. Mrs. John Carter; secretary of missionary education.

Miss E. B. Johnson: literature and publications. Miss Katherine Anne Boyies; supplies. Mrs.

H. B. Battis; young women's and girls' work, Mrs. Alvin McDowell: children's work, honorary. Mrs.

Viola Clayton, and active, Mrs. Irvin Crew; student work, Mrs. John W. Alden; spiritual life, Mrs. Earl M.

Shockley; communion steward. Mrs. Eber Jones: membership chairman, Mrs. Millard C. Taylor; flowers and hospitality, Mrs.

Hattie Robinson; status of women. Miss Elizabeth Jones: publicity, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Burnite; ways and means, Mrs. Byron Carpenter; parsonage, Mrs.

Eber Jones, and quilters, Mrs. Amy Conaway. Circle leaders elected were: Circle 1. Mrs. E.

W. Burnite: Circle 2, Mrs. i held 'on McCahister; Circle 4 Mus Mabel in the schwl Houpt: Circle 5. Miss Lillian Jack- -ni will be preceded by a adviser from the senior group to the junior section of the club, will be guests of honor at the Christmas dinner to be held at 6:30 clock tomorrow in the Hob by the junior section. The program will be informal.

Mrs. Jesse Loven and Mrs. El more L. Martin are co-chairmen of the committee on arrangements. Bridge games will follow the dinner.

Cash donations will be received at the party for the needy family which the young clubwomen are assisting this Christmas. This family, a mother and seven small children, will receive food and toys. Mrs. T. Crawley Davis, welfare chairman, will make the collection.

Mrs. W. Laurence Thompson la president of the Junior Section. Other officers are: Vice-president, Mrs. M.

G. Fontana; recording secretary, Mrs. Lawrence P. French; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Harlan Foster, and treasurer, Mrs.

Jesse Loven. Sicilian Waif, 13, Insists on Front Duty, Getting It WITH THE FIFTH ARMY in Italy (INS). The boys in the division's engineer company call him Tony Macaroni. He is only a 13-year-old Sicilian waif, but already the homeless youngster is in his second campaign of the war. Tony's parents were killed when war came to their small, Sicilian village.

Soon, the ragged little kid was hanging around the company kitchen, begging for food. The softhearted Yankees took him in and little Tony clicked from the start. He bunked with Staff Sergt. Ben- nie Lovato of Mosquero, N. and Sergeant Lovato has been the little Sicilian's foster father ever since.

Tony had another name, but it was too hard for the Americans to pro nounce, let alone remember. So they tagged him Tony Macaroni. When the engineers got ready to invade, they fitted Tony out with some cast-off clothing, gave him a barracks bag full of rations, patted him sadly on the head and sent him on his tearful way to his grandmother. The company hadn't been at the staging area for two hours before the kid showed- up, begging to be taken along. The youngster's grin through a lot of tears resulted in his being dressed to standards.

He was given a battered pistol that wouldn't fire and allowed aboard the trocp ship. Tony was given the non-existent rank of technician sixth grade. Little Tony, proud as mmch. an4 held up by the armpits of burly en gineers, came throuirh the surf onto the Italian mainland early in the Fifth Army campaign. He has been with the outfit ever since, doine odd jobs around the kitchen.

Tony is happy in the front lines. The soldiers treat him like a kid orotner. Rumor has it that Tony Macaroni is bucking for another stripe. That would make him a private. Silver 'Outranks' Gold Second lieutenants in the United States Army wore plain shoulder straps until World War I.

When it was decided they should waar bars, silver was already in use by first lieutenants, so they were given gold, hence the curious situation of silver outranking gold. Personal And Social News Three Delaware girls attending Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa, will spend the Christmas holidays at their homes, leaving the school at the conclusion of classes Saturday morning. They are: Miss Mai ion Arm Morgan, daughter of Mr." and Mrs. Harry L. Morgan, 2401 Franklin Street, a member of the sophomore class; Miss Merle Eisenbrey, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Preston G. Eisenbrey, Dover, a freshman, and Miss Elizabeth Joseph, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Joseph, Lewes, also a freshman.

The Misses Patty and Mary Fenn, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William Penn III, and Mrs. Fifl Schantz, daughter of Mrs. Charles A.

Owens will return this week from the Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, N. to spend the holidays. Lieut. William B. Ownes who is stationed in Massachusetts, in military sen-ice will return this weekend to spend the holidays with his father.

Mr. Charles A. Owens and Mrs. Owens. George F.

Kern pen II. a senior at Mercersburg Academy, returned today to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Alice F. Kempert, 2501 Jefferson Street. Mrs.

Richard Bard of Rehoboth Beach and Philadelphia, returned this week from California where she visited relatives. She has gone to her home in Rehoboth Beach. Mr. and w. H.

Brown and Miss Barbara Brown have been recent guests at the Hot! Wevlin, New York City. Mr. and Mrs. N. J.

Letang of Wilmington have been in New York, stopping at the Barbizon-Plaza. in the ciubroom or the Hotel DuPont, with Mrs. Gus M. Oehm of the Office of Civilian Defense as guest speaker. Mrs.

Oehm told of a Christmas which she spent In the Holy Land. Lieut. Esther Kinney, supervisor of nurses at Fort DuPont, and Lieut. Mary Bounds, dietitian of the hospital there, were guests of honor. Mrs.

Lillian V. Hulse, president. presided at the opening of the program and made an address of welcome. Mrs. Elsie Friday was pro gram chairman for the evening, as sisted by Miss Theresa Rost and Miss Margaret V.

Donnelly. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. John, offered the invocation; vocal jolos were given by Mrs.

Elizabeth Veazey. acccmpanied by Mrs. Vivian Elv Hill, and group singing of Christmas carols was led by Miss Beatrice Wheatley, the club treasurer. Tribute was paid by Mrs. Priday two Delaware girls serving with the armed forces overseas, Lieut.

Betty Bane, an Army nurse in Africa, the niece of the Misses Elsie and Minnie Waity, club members, and Pfc. June Grier of the WAC, first Delaware member of the corps iJ go overseas. Miss Mary Taylor took the part of Santa Claus and distributed small gifis at the close of the program. Decorations consisted of red candles and pine branches. Guests entertained at the dinneT included Mrs.

Hiram R. Bennett, Mrs. Eugene Jackson, Mrs. Maude Spencer, Mrs. Lillian Cooper, Mrs.

Elizabeth G. Dumm, Mrs. Gertrude Dempsey, Miss Mary Curry, Mrs. Bertha Stewart, Miss Gertrude Donnelly, Mrs. Jane Beacher, Mrs.

Sara Buckman, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Reed. Mr. Oliver Walls.

Miss Katherine Walls, Miss Olive Walls, Miss Elizabeth Martin, Miss Dorothy Jackson, Miss Mary Catalino, and Mrs. Mary Dolby. Fire Company Aides Have Holiday Program The Minquadale Fire Company's Auxiliary held its Christmas party in the flrehouse last night. Mrs. Nan Laws Woods of Richardson Park, president of the New Castle County Volunteer Firemen's Asso ciation Auxiliary, was guest of honor.

Miss Josephine Iori, presi dent of the Minquadale auxiliary, presided. Auxiliary "sisters" were revealed, and new "auxiliary sisters" for the ensuing year selected. There was a Santa Claus, and gifts were ex changed. Four members whose birthday anniversaries have occurred during the past month were honored last night. They are: Mrs.

Elizabeth Maxwell, Mrs. Rebecca Gordon, Mrs. Marguerite Griffith, and Mrs. Gevenda McNutt, who was chairman of the turkey banquet. Charity Club Elects, Makes Yuletide Gifts Officers were elected at the recent meeting of the Young Women's Charity Club held at the home of Mrs.

Mary Taylor. 208 South Road, Lindamere. Mrs. Rae Weldin is the newly elected president. Other officers are: Vice-presi dent.

Mrs. Mary Stewart: recording secretary, Mrs. Martha Cook; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ruth Whitemarsh; treasurer, Miss Eleanor Clemo. Instead of the usual games, a Christmas story was read by Mrs.

Laura Houston. A Christmas donation was made to a worthy family. Others present were: Mrs. Mildred Gaines. Mrs.

Pauline Wertz, Mrs. Clara Crockett, Mrs. Dorothy Wimbrow, Mrs. Betty Thompkins, Miss Edith Patterson, and Miss May Hanby. In College Play ATHENS.

Dec. 15 (Special). Miss Roberta Hodgson, of Fairfield Farms, Wilmington, took the part of Linda in the University of Georgia production of "Stage Door," recently. Miss Hodgson, member of the Phi Mu Sorority, took part in several plays in high school and at Virginia Intermont Junior College At the university last year she took the leading role in "Arms and the Man," the last production of the year. This is only the second University Theatre play she has taken part in.

She is a sophomore, majoring in dramatics, and is a member of the Speech Club here. Auxiliary to Meet A Christmas party will follow the meeting of Jacob Ferdinand Speer Auxiliary to Post 615, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to be held tonight at 7 o'clock at the post home, 3208 Market Street. Mrs. Julia Marshall will be chairman of hostesses. Party at Men's Home Five Points Chapter, O.

E. will take a Christmas party to Min quadale Home for men on Friday evening, leaving Boxwood Road and Newport Pike at 7:30 clock. Mrs. Meta Reed is chairman of the party. Daughter Announced Mr.

and Mrs. Nicholas R. duPont of Greenville announce the birth of a daughter on Dec. 12 at the Delaware Hospital. Undressed Chickens In Yorubaland, Nigeria, Africa, "nude" live chickens are sold.

All the feathers are plucked from live fowl by merchants so customers can see what they are buying. Remember Wilmington's Twenty-fire Neediest Families 'J Mrs. Sidney Layton Ayers THE wedding of Miss Elizabeth Star Goslee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Granville B.

Goslee of Georgetown, and Mr. Sidney Layton Ayers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Ayers of Sea ford, took place at noon yesterday at the home of the bride's parents.

The Rev. Omar E. Jones, pastor of Wesley Methodist church officiated, with the immedi ate families attending. Both the bride and bridegrooyn are graduates of the Georgetown High School. Pre-Bridal Fete For Dolly McCall Miss Ann 2007 W'est Seventeenth Street, entertained recently with a surprise shower in honor of Miss Dolly V.

McCall. whose marriage to Corp. T. P. Jewell will take place at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon in North Baptist Church.

The Rev. Irving Young will officiate. Those present were: Miss Pauline Rodenheiser, Miss Marion Owynn, Mrs. Donald Lynch, Mrs. Thomas Mairs.

Miss Betty Lawrence, Mrs. William Taylor. Mrs. William Browne, Miss Betty Warren, Miss Laura Sheelan, Miss Frances John Haley. Mtes Celia V.

Touhey, and Miss Geraldine Bow- man A surprise dinner party was given for the bride-to-be by Miss Pauline Dettling, 1500 North Brccm Street. Those present were: Miss Betty Lawrence. Mrs. William Taylor. Mrs.

William Browne, Miss Betty Warren, and Miss Laura Sheelan. Legion Aides Greet Santa at Night Party The Auxiliary of Delaware Post, No. 1, American Legion held a Christmas party last night at the home, 2103 Lancaster Avenue. Prior to the party a -covered dish supper was served and a short business meeting held. Mrs.

Arnold J. Ford played Santa Claus and distributed gifts. Christmas carols were sung under the direction of Mrs. John T. Benson and lrs.

William N. Cann. Mrs. Joseph C. Knox was hostess.

Mrs. Ann C. Norton presided. Recent Bride Photo bv OkomeiFski Studio. Mrs.

Albert J. Feliciani rEFORE her recent marriage Mrs, f) Feliciani was Miss Eugenia I. Pesce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Pesce of Kennett Square.

The wedding took place in St. Pat rick's Catholic Church, Kennett Square. Mr. Feliciani is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Feliciani of this city. The young couple is living temporarily at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Feliciani, who was recently given a medical dts-charge from the Army, is in business Mrs. Feliciani is associated with the office of U.

S. District Attorney Stewart Lynch in this city. 'W'jgKp3a3 i "Spirit of Christmas" and Barbara Black as "Candle Bearer." Edith Johnson and Claire Collins will take part in the worship service. Miss Frances McKenney will direct the choir. Following the worship.

Girl Reserves and their friends will decorate the building in Christmas colors. Miss Lillian Werner, past president of the Girl Reserve Council, will light the yule log in the lobby. An All-American Christmas tree 1 Friends Scltool Groups to Have Dance Parties Al umni, Athletic Society This To Entertain Week-End The Christmas reunion dance of the Friends School Alumni Asso- SatUrday gymnasium. It supper party. Games also will be played.

Mr. H. Burton Eaton, president of the alumni, is in charge of arrangements. Other officers of the alumni are: Vice-president, Mrs. Charles Jackson; secretary.

Miss Ann Blake, sind treasurer, Mr. Carroll W. Griffith. Students at schools and colleges out-of-town will attend the Athletic Christmas dance to be held in the school Friday night. Bob Stevens' orchestra will play.

Officers of the association are: President, Rich-ird P. Mcrrow; Wilda M. Schawman; secretary, Carolyn Simmons, and treasurer, Frank W. Diver, Jr. Cross Country Garden Club Shows Flowers The December meeting of the Cross Country Garden Club was held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs.

Arnold L. Pitcher, Kennett Pike. Each member displayed a Christmas arrangement. Mrs. Eliza beth Coyne Ott.

Drexel Hill, gave readings. Tea was served following the business meeting. Mrs. Max Ilatthes, president, poured. Class to Have Party The Philathea Bible Class of Union Methodist Church will hold a Christmas party with the December meeting at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs.

Bertha McCaulley Foster, 804 North Harrison Street. Mrs. Marion Gold- ner will preside and Mrs. Grace Sanderson will conduct the devotions. Hostesses assisting Mrs.

Foster will be Mrs. Edith Grimes, Mrs. Ruth Walker, Mrs. Lottie Hayman, and Mrs. Reba Sanderson.

i Nelson daughter, Miss Helen to Seaman 9 I I If 11 I Hill Y. W. Tonight will be decorated with gifts and souvenirs sent by Girl Reserves from cities all over the United States. Following the ceremony of the "Hanging of the Greens," the "Jun- Helen Eby, Jean Eby, Dolores Bradley. Ariene Siegel, June Singer, and Nancy Narvel.

Mrs. Charles Quin-ton Smith directs this group. The Alexis I. duPont School ninth grade all-girl choir will sing. Refreshments will be served by a committee of girls from Warner Junior High School and Alexis I.

duPont School. Girl Reserves are inviting their friends, senior club girls, and all senior members of the Y. W. C. A.

as guests. Home Managers Add Members to Board At the meeting of the board of managers of the Home ol Merciful Rest held yesterday at the home, Mrs. Howard L. Seaman was elected a member. Mrs.

Robert Ferriday reported that all rooms of the home will be occupied by the end of this month. Plans were made for a party to be held for the residents of the home on Christmas Day. Appreciation was expressed to those who assisted in making the Thanksgiving Day party a success. The home is soliciting table linen. Gifts needed are three and one-half-yard cloths.

They may be sent to the horns. Mrs. Frank G. Tall-man, newly elected president of the board, presided. Mothers of Service Bpys to Be Guests The Women's League of the Cathedral Church of St.

John will entertain mothers of boys in U. S. service from the hurch at a Christmas party to be held tonight in the parish house. Mrs. Harriet Scott, president, will conduct a short business session.

Readings will be given by pupils of Mrs. Emma Wheeler and small gifts will be exchanged. Mrs. Frank S. Malcom is arranging the program and decorations will be in charge of Mrs.

J. GifTord Weaver and Mrs. Charles W. Tingle. Richardson Park Club To Meet Tomorrow RICHARDSON PARK, Dec.

15 (Soecial). The Women's Civic Club will meet tomorrow at 8 p. m. in the Community Hall, with Mrs. Isabelle Cunningham presiding.

The members of the junior club will be guests. Following the meeting a Christmas party will be held with the junior members providing the fr-JS a small gift to drop in the Christmas chimney, and later the gifts will be distributed by Mrs. Nan Laws Woods, program chairman. Mrs. Helen Callahan and her committee will serve refreshments.

Rummage Sale A rummage sale will be held by the Ladies' Aid Society of Zion Lutheran Church on Friday afterr noon, evening, and Saturday morning at 802 Tatnall Street. a community Christmas program on Friday night. The community Christmas program will be given by students of the high school and elementary grades. The fourth and fifth grades, of which Miss Gladys Middleton, Miss Ethlyn Burns, and Miss Evelyn Conant are teachers, will give a playlet, "Thirty Minutes With Santa Claus," and a second playlet, "Santa and His Court," will be given by pupils of the first, third, and sixth grades. Faculty members in charge are Miss Margaret Van Arkle, Mrs.

John Lafferty, and Mrs. Pauline Mills. Musical features will include a duet by Dorothy Jones and, Jane Thomas, and a solo by Frances Morgan, as well as chorus singing by a group of girls. to R. AND MRS.

JOHN T. HOP- IVi KINS of "Kamichico near Elkton, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Charlotte Anne, to David Bevis, seaman first class, son of Mrs. Catherine H. Bevis and th late Mr. David P.

Bevis, 1203 Jef ferson Street, this city. Miss Hop kins is a graduate of William Penn High School, New Castle, and Bea-com Business College. Mr. Bevis is a graduate of Wilmington High School and is now serving overseas in the United States Naval Reserve. City Pilot Club Plans Christmas Dinner Party Society to Entertain At Hotel DuPont Next Tuesday A Christmas party and dinner will be held by the Pilot Club of Wil mington at the Hotel DuPont next Tuesday The plans were out lined at the luncheon meeting of the club held yesterday at the hotel.

Miss Jewell Lunceford presided. The committee for the party met recently at the home of Mrs. Dorothy Troutman. Assisting Mrs. with the program will be Mrs Nellie Collison and Miss Eunice Bounds.

The club social commit tee, composed of Mrs. Maude Spen cer and Miss Frances Hackett, is also attending. Participation in the Fourth War Loan Drive opening Jan. 15 was discussed and Miss Elv a M. Chandler told of the formation of a committee of service club representatives to work with the War Finance Com mittee in the next drive and other projects.

Members of the Wilmington Quota Club and the Pilot Club will cooperate in a special project in conjunction with the Fourth War Loan Drive during Service Club Week beginning Jan. 31. The club received an invitation to meet with the Wilmington Quota "Club at a luncheon on Monday, Jan. 31. Mrs.

Maude Spencer gave a report of the meeting of the executive committee last week. Christmas greetings were received from Miss Helen' Hoffman of Washington, D. governor of the district of which Wilmington is a part. League Party DELAWARE CITY, Dec. 15 (Special).

The Epworth League of the Methodist Church will hold its monthly meeting Friday night followed by a Christmas party at the home of Sergt. and Mrs. Talma dge Nunn and Sergt. and Mrs. William Jones.

Engaged Miss Rita DeFiore R. AND MRS. JOSEPH De- FIORE, 201 South Union Street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Rita, to Ensign William M. Burckhart. U.

S. N. son of Mr. and Mrs. William E.

Burck- hart of Erie, Pa. Ensign Burckhart is now on active duty. i i 'I i I 1 rOf ylJl 71 OH II Mr. and Mrs. Paul T.

Thatcher, 1412 Lancaster Avenue, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Mary, to Lieut. William J. Harden, U. S. Army Air Corps, son of Mr.

and Mrs. William E. Harden. Miss Thatcher is a graduate of Ursuline Academy and is attending Immaculata College, Tmmaculata, Pa. Lieutenant Harden was graduated from Salesianum High School and attended the University of Delaware before entering the Air Corps.

Weddings Of City and State I Hodgkin-Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hodgkin of 228 West Nineteenth Street announce the marriage of their daugh ter, Miss Madge Tunis Hodgkin, to Lieut. Dancer P. Ellis, cf Hazleton.

formerly of this city. The cere mony was performed on Oct. 20 in Lebanon, where Lieutenant and Mrs. Ellis are now living. Lieutenant Ellis Is stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.

Mrs. Ellis was graduated from the P. S. duPont High School and was associated with N. B.

Danforth, before her marriage. The bridegroom, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis of Hazleton, formerly lived in this city. Clarlce'Leocha SALISBURY, Dec.

14 (Spe cial). Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph Clarke of Baltimore, formerly of Salisbury, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Nancy Ire, lo' Lieut, (j. Victor Stanley Leocha, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Alexander Leocha of Claremont, N. H. The couple was married at a nuptial mass Dec. 4 in St.

Cecelia's Catholic Church, Baltimore, by Lieut. William Martin. U. S. N.

a chaplain at the Naval Training Station at Bainbridge. Miss Katherine Jones was the bride's maid of honor and only attendant. Lieut, (j.g.) John Joseph Redmon cf New York wasbest man. After the ceremony, which was attended only by the immediate families, a wedding breakfast was served at the Emerson Hotel. The bride attended the State Teachers College here.

Lieutenant Leocha attended the University of New Hampshire and was graduated from the dental school at Tufts College, Boston, after which he Interned at the Methodist Hospital In Dallas, Texas. He is stationed at the United States Naval Medical Center, Be-thesda, Md. Engagements GEORGETOWN, Dec. 15 (Special). Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond F. Short announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Ann, to Sergt. Loren H. Frye.

son of the Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Frye of Richardson Park.

Miss Short is a graduate of the Georgetown High School, class of 41. She is now the secretary for Dr. Preston E. West here. Sergeant Frye is stationed at Fort Ord, in the Signal Operations Battalion.

He Is a graduate of the Lewes High School and the University of Delaware, class of '43. Attention, Delaware Women! Xou are vital to victory, too. The Army is calling urgently for thousands more WACs. Join now! son; Circle 6, Mrs. Ira S.

Pruitt: Circle 7, Mrs. Helen Boyd, and Circle 8, Mrs. Victor M. Bailey. The new officers and leaders will be installed in the church on Sun day evening, Jan.

9, by the Rev. E. M. Shockley, pastor. The next regular meeting will be on Monday evening, Jan.

10. Kennett Clubwomen Have Christmas Party The Kennett Square Garden Club held its Christmas party on Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. J. Shoemaker.

Members decorated the Shoemaker heme with Christmas arrangements. The main door arrangement was the work of Mrs. Russell P. Brewer and Mrs. Cyril Acheson decorated the side Mrs.

Helen Otis and Mrs. W. M. Hannum did the mantel in the living room with evergreens, crystal balls, and blue candles. Mrs.

Clarence Marshall did the buffet with a silver urn holding a fruit arrange ment. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Ache- son, arranged an oval group of red carnations and evergreens on the desk, flanked by red candles and bar berry. An outstanding arrangement was the work of Mrs. Malcolm Farquhar at the tea table.

It consisted of an oval plaque of redwood with a han dle of holly leaves. It was filled with grapes and red carnations. Woman's Society Elects The Woman's Society of Christian. Service of St. Paul's Methodist Church has elected officers as follows: President, Mrs.

Walter S. Grin- sell; vice-president, Mrs. August Schoell; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Howard D. Talley; recording secretary, Mrs.

Florence Stevenson; treasurer, Miss Florence M. ElUcott; secretary of Christian social rela tions, Mrs. Elsie Bevan; young people's work, Mrs. James Ashby; children's work, Mrs. E.

P. Thomas; status of women, Mrs. V. Davis; supply, Mrs. Leah McKelvey; literature, Mrs.

Mary E. Cadman. and spiritual life, Miss Rietta M. Emerson. New Arrival Staff Sergt.

and Mrs. Harley Bel-J den Seale, of Rehoboth Beach announce the birth of a son yesterday In the Delaware Hospital. The baby has been named Harley Belden Seale III. Mrs. Seale is the former Miss Patricia Holliday, daughter of Mrs.

Philip J. Carpenter, 905 Center Road, Westover Hills. i'our joh is to see to it that there is no shortage of anything needed to make invasion swift and sure. We do no: v. ant an other Bataa.

or Corresridor ever pfain. Get that extra War Bond Lei ccs, Rehoboth Beach Young People to Have Yule Dances Two holiday dances are being ar- ranged for the younger set of Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. The Christmas cotillions, usually held by the older groups, have been' cancelled this year. The Lewes School Cotillion Club has-chosen Dec. 23 for its holiday dance in the school auditorium.

They will have an orchestral unit from the Harbor Defense Band of Fort Miles to play for dancing. Invitations are extended to members of the school alumni as well as to students. The senior class of the Rehoboth School will give a semi-formal dance, probably on Dec. 28, in the school cafeteria. At a meeting yesterday afternoon or the Rehoboth Parent-Teacher As sociation, plans were completed for today..